Scores of young Roma women were recently paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their ...

The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stalls are no where to be seen among the milling patrons. Instead, young ...

STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria — Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger sisters in a provocative ...

POSING for selfies and dancing around a bedroom, they could be your typical teens. But these young Roma women will have a different fate than most. Only the young women from Bulgaria’s Kalaidzhi — an ...

When a Roma from a southern Bulgarian clan is looking for a bride, he goes to the traditional gathering, which is at his folk stage in Stara Zagora each year in late winter or early spring - though as ...

Scores of young Roma women have been paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their ...

Good looks and virginity may have commanded so far high prices at Bulgaria's Roma bride market, but not any more as the crisis has pushed them further down than ever before. The tinkers of Thrace, ...

This Saturday, March 23, 2013 photo shows Roma girl and boy from the Kalaidzhi community dancing on the trunk of a car, holding money in their hands during so called "Roma bridal market" . The ...

When a Roma from a southern Bulgarian clan is looking for a bride, he goes to the traditional gathering which his folk stage in Stara Zagora each year in late winter or early spring. When a Roma from ...

Instead, young eligible bachelors from central Bulgaria, are here to find themselves a wife at a traditional "bride market". More than 2,000 Roma travellers converged on Mogila on one of the first ...

STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria — Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger sisters in a provocative ...